26.12.08

Religion and other hairy businesses

Kategoriseret under Rotterdam by bloksblog

 My connection with the Danish church has never been stronger since I moved to Holland. There was the time of my confirmation where I spend some time learning about Christianity, but now I try to come at the Danish Seaman church in R’dam every Friday for dinner.
It’s quite nice to meet all these Danish people who are now damed in the Rotter. And 5 euros all you can eat is also very attractive.

The Church is just 2 minutes from the school, so it was almost obvious when we decided to have our Kaospilot Christmas party there because they have the room and kitchen to do it in.
The only thing our sweet priest Line and the church servant Poul requested was that we would clean up the garden. So all of team 2 turned up to pull up weed and remove the disturbingly big amount of trash that the river Mass had pushed into the shore at the church.
After a good hour work we were done and took the trampoline and jumped onto the HUGE amount of weed we collected. And so, the party could happen next Saturday.

The night of the moustache

Our brave Icelandic lad, sir Unnsteinn, had taken on the task of project manage the Christmas party. And so it was decided that he wanted to get married to the sweet Dutch girl Kim. Now, for you that do not know, Unnsteinn is homosexual with pressure on homo and Kim already has a boyfriend. But what does Kaospilots not do to change the world.
The Aarhus Kaospilots where invited and 18 of them showed up in mini busses. All of them dresses up and in different costumes because we where all given parts in this winter wedding. I was the sexist boss of Unnsteinn and had my own towel factory (Hot Towels) hence the ugly moustache in the picture below!
A great night and a beautiful day next morning when I took the Aarhus people for a tour around the city. Great people those Kaospilots.

In a few days my moustache had been called “a polish image-maker”, “the handlebar of ugly”, “HA HA HA HA” (mostly said by people who saw me the first time with a moustache), “the definition of a father” and after a few days it was even called “cool” and “cult”. It’s gone now, thank god!

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Jamming around the Netherlands

Kategoriseret under Rotterdam by bloksblog

I know it has been a while since the Blok’s blog have been updated, but as most of you properly also have sensed, this month is a crazy one. December is also a very important one cause a great person was born who we celebrate and he brings us together. Oh, and thanks for all the congratulations on my birthday.

December did actually start out very interesting because I went to Breda. It is a Dutch town about 40 minutes from Rotterdam. I went to visit some new German friends and spend an evening at a dusky bar listening to different musicians jam on stage. There was a good atmosphere and the evening lasted until very late and I didn’t get much sleep.

The president and I

So, after two hours of much needed sleep I went to meet my dear Kaospilot friends at a conference on innovation and the future of Holland. We had prepared a workshop on how to inspire people to be innovative and we had noooo idea of how many people would attend. So we took the matters into our own hands.
There where hundreds of people standing in line to get registered for the conference so they could enter. Once on the inside, you could get free coffee among many other things. So we thought why not bring coffee to the people who need it the most on the outside?

So we borrowed some treys, asked the waiters for loads of coffee and we then wandered into the lobby where we served coffee while telling about our workshop…
We expected 20-25 and had room for max 30… App. 60-70 showed up! And some had to leave because there was no room.

Shortly thereafter my roommate Loek and my KP-friend Geert had a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands for an hour about the future of educations! A great day indeed!
See pictures below.

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